VacationSelector

Siena or Tromso?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Siena
✓ Best match
39
match

Wins on museums & heritage and year-round weather with your weighting.

Tromso
27
match

Wins on beaches & swimming with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

SienaTromso
Beaches & swimming. Tromso leads by 52 points.52
SienaTromso
Score052
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km014
Coast distance64 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Siena leads by 8 points.8
SienaTromso
Score3224
Restaurants within 2 km of centre24285
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1116
Museums & heritage. Siena leads by 48 points.48
SienaTromso
Score7123
Museums within 10 km5510
Museums within 2 km of centre518
Share of museums within 2 km %9380
Unesco sites within 50 km50
Nightlife. Siena leads by 10 points.10
SienaTromso
Score177
Drinking venues within 4 km14267
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre11961
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8491
Nightclubs within 4 km15
Nature & day trips. Siena leads by 8 points.8
SienaTromso
Score1911
Protected land share 50 km %39
Landscape blanket share 50 km %09
Land share of disc %10065
Park area within 2 km29 hectares7 hectares
Good for families. Siena leads by 17 points.17
SienaTromso
Score3114
Tourist attractions within 2 km139
Park area within 2 km29 hectares7 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km00
Sights concentration. Siena leads by 22 points.22
SienaTromso
Score5028
Notable places within 2 km6920
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Siena leads by 14 points.14
SienaTromso
Score6854
Price level global64.985.1
Daily budget€155€203
Year-round weather. Siena leads by 31 points.31
SienaTromso
Score6433
Monthly daytime high8.9 °C to 31.3 °C-1.1 °C to 16.3 °C
Monthly rainfall49 mm to 136 mm56 mm to 128 mm
Dry months00
0255075100

When should you go?

The figures behind each month. Each row is shaded against that destination's own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that measure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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Daytime high, °C
Siena
9
11
15
20
23
28
31
31
26
20
14
10
Tromso
-1
-1
1
4
9
13
16
15
11
5
2
0
Sea temperature, °C
Siena
No coastline within reach
Tromso
5
5
4
4
6
8
10
11
10
9
7
6
Rainfall, mm
Siena
71
79
107
75
99
71
53
49
103
86
136
110
Tromso
108
95
97
71
56
57
73
90
110
128
94
110
Daylight, hours per day
Siena
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Tromso
2
7
12
16
22
24
24
18
14
9
4
0
Sunshine, hours per day
Siena
No sunshine record
Tromso
0
1
3
6
8
8
8
6
3
2
0
0

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Siena: 2006-2017 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Arezzo (45 km from centre). Tromso: 1991-2020 normals, Tromso (0.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSienaTromso
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 5 m
€180-199
1 stop
FLR · 55 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€143-159
FLR · 55 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
CopenhagenCPH
2 h 15 m
€172-198
FLR · 55 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
HelsinkiHEL
3 h 5 m
no fares
FLR · 55 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
GdanskGDN
2 h 15 m
no fares
PSA · 86 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 30 m
no fares
FLR · 55 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 10 m
no fares
FLR · 55 km
3 h 40 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
2 h 50 m
€120-185
1 stop
PSA · 86 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
BerlinBER
1 h 50 m
€119-200
1 stop
PSA · 86 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 55 m
€232-255
2 stops
FLR · 55 km
3 h 5 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km

The busiest departure cities for these two, with a place kept for each other part of the world. Busiest means arriving passengers where an official count exists, and where none does, the number of non-stop services flown: official route statistics are published by the European reporting countries and by nobody else, so a table ranked on them alone would offer a reader in New York or Tokyo ten European cities. Flying times are estimated from the distance between airports, and every row is a city flown non-stop to both. Where the typical offer connects anyway, the stops are shown. Under each figure is the airport the flight lands at and how far that is from the centre, because the nearest airport is not always the one a route is flown to. Where both columns name the same airport it is one flight, and the difference between the two is the distance printed beside it. Typical return fares for 2026-09 to 2026-10, cached market data up to 7 days old. The figure is the middle half of the offers found, so a single price means they agreed and a range means they did not; for a typical route that middle half spans about a quarter of the median, and for the least settled routes rather more than the median itself.

Before you go

MeasureSienaTromso
Official languageItalianNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, Sámi
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Norwegian Krone (NOK)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112Police 112, ambulance 113, fire 110
Elevation322 m20 m
Main airportFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)55 km from centre36 non-stop destinationsTromsø Airport (TOS)4 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureSienaTromso
City population52,81279,943
People per km²44632
Museums within 10 km298
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km50
Distinct cuisines in the centre2523
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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Sources

© OpenStreetMap contributors, data available under the Open Database Licence. Place counts include data from Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA Permissive 2.0), assembled from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and other providers. Notable-place counts from Wikidata (CC0), weighted by Wikipedia language editions. Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Non-stop route lists from the "Airlines and destinations" tables on English Wikipedia airport articles, by Wikipedia contributors, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0. Currency from the ISO 4217 register maintained by SIX, cross-checked against country data from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), CC BY 4.0. Time zones from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0); clock offsets computed from the IANA time zone database. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

Scores follow rubric v2; snapshot generated 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.